{"product_id":"the-scaling-era-an-oral-history-of-ai-2019-2025","title":"The Scaling Era: An Oral History of Ai, 2019-2025","description":"\u003cdiv data-a-expander-name=\"book_description_expander\" data-a-expander-collapsed-height=\"280\" class=\"a-expander-collapsed-height a-row a-expander-container a-spacing-base a-expander-partial-collapse-container\" style=\"max-height: none; height: 280px;\"\u003e \u003cdiv data-expanded=\"false\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px;\"\u003e \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eAn inside view of the AI revolution, from the people and companies making it happen.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e How did we build large language models? How do they think, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eif\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e they think? What will the world look like if we have billions of AIs that are as smart as humans, or even smarter?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In a series of in-depth interviews with leading AI researchers and company founders‚Äîincluding Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, DeepMind cofounder Demis Hassabis, OpenAI cofounder Ilya Sutskever, MIRI cofounder Eliezer Yudkowsky, and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg‚ÄîDwarkesh Patel provides the first comprehensive and contemporary portrait of the technology that is transforming our world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Drawn from his interviews on the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eDwarkesh Podcast\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, these curated excerpts range from the technical details of how LLMs work to the possibility of an AI takeover or explosive economic growth. Patel‚Äôs conversations cut through the noise to explore the topics most compelling to those at the forefront of the field: the power of scaling, the potential for misalignment, the sheer input required for AGI, and the economic and social ramifications of superintelligence. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The book is also a standalone introduction to the technology. It includes over 170 definitions and visualizations, explanations of technical points made by guests, classic essays on the theme from other writers, and unpublished interviews with Open Philanthropy research analyst Ajeya Cotra and Anthropic cofounder Jared Kaplan. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Scaling Era\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e offers readers unprecedented insight into a transformative moment in the development of AI‚Äîand a vision of what comes next.\u003c\/span\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-header a-expander-partial-collapse-header\" style=\"opacity: 1; display: block;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-content-fade\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"javascript:void(0)\" role=\"button\" data-action=\"a-expander-toggle\" class=\"a-declarative\" data-a-expander-toggle='{\"allowLinkDefault\":true, \"expand_prompt\":\"Read more\", \"collapse_prompt\":\"Read less\"}'\u003e\u003ci class=\"a-icon a-icon-extender-expand\"\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-expander-prompt\"\u003eRead more\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Stripe Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50578929287453,"sku":"9781953953551","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0901\/5692\/5213\/files\/9781953953551.jpg?v=1762278310","url":"https:\/\/bookdelico.com\/products\/the-scaling-era-an-oral-history-of-ai-2019-2025","provider":"Book Delico ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}